Every word from Hela sounded chillingly plausible.
Even Thor, burning with hatred, felt doubt creep into his heart.
Had Odin truly done something so despicable?
"Now that I've returned," Hela laughed, "anyone who resists me dies."
"I killed that foolish old man Odin with my own hands."
She spoke as if savoring fine wine.
"Where is my mother?!" Thor demanded.
"Your mother? If you kneel like a dog, perhaps I'll spare her."
"My mother is Queen Frigga."
Hela's expression darkened instantly.
So this was Thor.
Odin's exiled son.
"I was wondering whether I should travel to Earth to finish you. How convenient that you walked in yourself."
"Try going to Earth," Thor growled. "The President will beat you into regretting being born."
A snap of her fingers.
Skeleton guards dragged in Frigga.
"Mother!"
"My child… you shouldn't have come back."
Thor immediately activated his member bracelet to call for help.
Nothing.
No response.
"I love watching hope turn into despair," Hela said lazily, tossing black swords toward him.
Thor blocked the first strike with a fallen blade, the recoil tearing his palm open.
The second sword pierced his leg.
"So weak," Hela frowned. "Are you really Odin's son?"
"I am… Thor Odinson!"
"Then amuse me. Use your hammer."
"I don't need Mjölnir to kill you!"
He pulled the blade from his leg and staggered forward.
Hela yawned and casually hurled more swords.
They tore through his body. Blood soaked the palace floor.
"Enough. Kill the woman."
"Stop!"
The skeleton guard drove its blade through Frigga's chest.
She collapsed.
Thor's mind shattered.
Father dead. Brother dead. Friends dead. Mother dead.
All within a single day.
Hela walked past him.
"Better you live in endless pain than die."
Thor grabbed her ankle with blood-soaked hands.
She casually slashed—
His left eye exploded in blood.
"Now you resemble Odin a little."
She kicked him into the wall, leaving a long red smear.
"Who are you?" she mocked.
"I… am…"
"You're trash."
Pain.
Endless pain.
Something stirred in the emptiness inside him.
Blue lightning flickered in his remaining eye.
"I… am…"
Thunder roared through his veins.
"I AM—THOR!"
Lightning erupted from his body.
A bolt of violent purple thunder crashed directly into Hela.
Crack—
The illusion fractured like glass.
Reality shattered.
The dreamscape collapsed.
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